Title: xhtml validation problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# xhtml validation problem

 *  [kmurphy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmurphy/)
 * (@kmurphy)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem/)
 * Hi, I just did a fresh install and clicked on the xhtml validator and was given
   the following error:
    “Line 87, column 8: end tag for “ul” which is not finished`
   Most likely, You nested tags and closed them in the wrong order. For example _..._
   is not acceptable, as  must be closed before . Acceptable nesting is: _..._ Another
   possibility is that you used an element (e.g. 'ul') which requires a child element(
   e.g. 'li') that you did not include. Hence the parent element is “not finished”,
   not complete.” I think the problem area is near the  <li id="categories"><?php
   _e('Categories:'); ?>  section and all the nested lists… I have allready set 
   this up and fit it to the web sites look and feel in the past and went through
   a lot of validation efforts and finally got it to validate, so when I just did
   a fresh install and made no changes to the install, I decided to see if it would
   validate and that is when I got the above errror. Any ideas? Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [kmurphy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmurphy/)
 * (@kmurphy)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem/#post-109621)
 * Kind of strange, I have not changed a thing, and yesterday I was getting that
   validation error, today, it validates. All I did was leave my computer and go
   out with a freind for a beer… a solution I am going to opt for a lot more often
   now!
    Thanks

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem/#post-109621)
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